I just wanted to say that I agree with you on all points (I don't read Digg for the same reasons, and I read Slashdot the same way). It's just that your initital post was a bit absolutist.
about:config is stupid design. I don't care so much that isn't user friendly. What annoys me is that it isn't available from the Preferences menu. They have an Advanced tab. Why don't they stick a link to it in there?
And, yes, I do have a specific framework in mind as a point of comparison for all the points I listed in my first comment. [..] And, no, I'm not going to tell you which one it is.
That's such a cowardly way out. No suprise you are posting AC. You made the claims, you back them up. Say what framework you think is better so it can be fairly compared to Rails.
I can play your stupid game too. I know what framework you're thinking of, and the one I'm thinking of is twice as good as that one. Do your homework and figure out which one it is.
If you would RTFA, or for that matter RTFSummary, you'd notice that they aren't painting for air strikes
It says right in the summary: "allowing troops to call in a precision air strike". There have been tons of reports about bombs being dropped in civilian areas to take out small arms fire.
You can get problems with expensive stuff too. And sometimes cheap stuff works just fine. Sometimes companies charge more than they need to because they don't want a stigma of being "cheap". The real problem isn't the price, it's the lack of information as to what makes one product cheaper than another. For example, it could have less features that you don't want (like a built-in HD tuner). Or maybe the company has cheaper labor or is more efficient.
Regarding this Westinghouse, the article stated that you can get a firmware fix for it for free. Not the most horrible thing in the world, and I could see the same thing happening with more expensive products.
The happiest people I know have the basics and that's all they want.
I dunno about that. Castro seemed pretty satisfied to me. Saddam was happy building his palaces and statues until Bush took his toys away. I think it's harder on politicians in free societies because they get so much criticism and have to eat it. The dictators can just throw the malcontents in prison.
While I don't own any large percentage of apple stock (and thus my influence could also be considered miniscule), my influence is over policy is vastly more than yours as a customer.
You're wrong. Apple is now on the front page of Slashdot being shown as censoring problem reports from customers. I'm sure this will get get back to managers at Apple and that they won't be happy about the negative publicity. This all happened because they mistreated one customer. Score one for the little guy and fuck your elitist, tin soldier "I"m a shareholder" boast.
I love how all you Apple fanboys defend them no matter what. The guy has a problem with his Mac Pro and posts on an Apple *support* forum for Mac Pros. And then in an awful display of customer support, his post gets censored.
The only way to fix this shit is to shame companies for this stupid behavior. The blind loyalty by the Apple devotees is amusing, though. If Microsoft had done this you wouldn't be making your silly defenses.
No, Solaris 10 does not come with the source, although it is licensed under a Free/Open Source license that is approved by the FSF, but not GPL compatible.
This is wrong. Solaris 10 is not licensed under an open source license. The two relevant links are:
It's confusing as all hell, and Sun is not very explicit on their webpages about the distinction between Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. It seems like much of the commercial Solaris code has been transferred to the OpenSolaris project, but not all: "There remains some system code that is not open sourced, and is available only as binary files.". There is no free source you can build from that will give you an official Solaris 10 build. As an example, somebody in this thread posted that Sun was charging for patches (and of course some jerk modded him down for mentioning it).
I think the answer is if you want open source, stick with OpenSolaris, unless you want paid support.
For a couple of days I saw some people who had stopped at the side of the road to view it during my commute. Sadly I didn't stop to see what they were looking at, and by the time I found out it was a day too late. At least the people in the Southern Hemisphere have advance warning.
But then again, it's just a light in the sky. I'll get over it:)
Spending $5 on a used CD when I typically only want one or two songs from an album isn't worthwhile. I'd rather pay iTunes $1 and download the song. Much more convenient and cheaper. And you know, I totally forgot about the burn-to-CD iTunes hole. I recently shifted to Linux from Windows, with my iTunes collection sitting unused. Burning it to CD and then copying to mp3 isn't a hardship.
After I have heard the music it is my choice whether to support the artist or not. [..] The music and movie industry has to change its business to suit this decade, and "less progressive"/old/outdated american laws are not helping.
The problem is that most people aren't going to pay for something if they can get it for free. Yes, some will, but come on, you know the vast majority will not. So how are content producers supposed to make their money? It costs millions of dollars to make a movie. The only way they can make it back if they can't charge for it is via massive product placement -- and who the hell wants that? Just look at television -- full of ads. Then people get sick of the ads and cut them out by either DVR or downloading from the net. If everybody does this, how can the producers spend the money to put out a show?
And while it doesn't cost millions to make a song, I think the availability and quality of music as a whole will suffer without people chasing the dream of "making the big time". The indy stuff you can get for free is mostly by people trying to make a name for themselves. If freely copyable indy music truly was better, then there would be no need to worry about DRM -- just don't buy it and listen to the free indy stuff. It's like that today with software. There's lots of good, free software available. If it doesn't meet your needs there's lots of good software you can buy. Isn't it nice to have the choice?
I have a home stereo where you can hear differences. Today's youth and general consumer doesn't really know what good sound reproduction can sound like.
Or maybe you're just much more sensitive to music quality than the average person?
You list trivial contact information as things you are willing to share. Why is that? Why don't you mention all your purchases, your health records, every website you visit, every private email you send? Do you want cameras in every room of your house that are accessible 24/7? Do you want every word you say recorded and publically available? This is all information. Does it still want to be free?
No, information doesn't want anything. The vast majority of people want to keep their sensitive information private, and outside people occasionally want access to it. The information itself doesn't have feelings.
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Tcl, hmm, why do people like this language so much? I hate the "everything is a string/macro" approach. It's very hard to look at a piece of code and figure out what's going on. Ad-hoc and confusing syntax everywhere. The object-oriented stuff is tacked on and it shows.
At first glance I thought it was kinda neat. I liked the string/function interpolation (as opposed to just variable interpolation in Perl). The singly-threaded event system is a nice default. The syntax seemed simple and clean. However, that simple appearance was deceptive if you actually sat down and tried to figure out how to parse an arbitrary line of code.
And about this whole "scripting" language thing. I have found that scripts far too often turn into applications, and that static typing is needed to keep a handle on the code. Instead of reaching for scripting languages, we should reach for static languages that have script-like features, such as type inference.
No it doesn't. Information has no feelings. Stop repeating mindless slogans. Do you want your deepest, darkest secrets exposed to the world? Do you want to live in a society where corporations and governments track everything you do, know all your health problems, etc? Does information still want to be free?
There are lots of good arguments for and against copyright, with lots of grey areas inbetween (for example, scaling back the length of copyright and reversing oppressive laws like the DMCA). Let's not reduce the discussion to "information wants to be free", just because people like downloading entertainment for nothing or breaking in to protected systems.
That's fine, but the average consumer is looking at lots of content designed for 4/3. If you want to claim they can buy a comparable HDTV set to their 27" standard for $500, you should include some caveats.
You misunderstand. I never said to spoonfeed the answers. just tell the developer what your expectations are. Who said to do all the work for the developer? If you want gold-plated production code, then ask for that. If you just want to see if he can mock up a solution, then ask for that. The point is that an interview environment is totally artificial -- there are no customers, there are no real requirements, and the interviewee has no idea what the interviewer's expectations are. In the real world the developer knows what the situation is.
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I just wanted to say that I agree with you on all points (I don't read Digg for the same reasons, and I read Slashdot the same way). It's just that your initital post was a bit absolutist.
Does that mean you read Slashdot at -1?
The moderators are people like you. Ask yourself why you were wrong and you will get the answer as to why you were modded up.
about:config is stupid design. I don't care so much that isn't user friendly. What annoys me is that it isn't available from the Preferences menu. They have an Advanced tab. Why don't they stick a link to it in there?
That's such a cowardly way out. No suprise you are posting AC. You made the claims, you back them up. Say what framework you think is better so it can be fairly compared to Rails.
I can play your stupid game too. I know what framework you're thinking of, and the one I'm thinking of is twice as good as that one. Do your homework and figure out which one it is.
Glittery front ends suck.
It says right in the summary: "allowing troops to call in a precision air strike". There have been tons of reports about bombs being dropped in civilian areas to take out small arms fire.
Technology predictions a 100 years out are worth shit. Your assumptions are as bad as the article's.
You can get problems with expensive stuff too. And sometimes cheap stuff works just fine. Sometimes companies charge more than they need to because they don't want a stigma of being "cheap". The real problem isn't the price, it's the lack of information as to what makes one product cheaper than another. For example, it could have less features that you don't want (like a built-in HD tuner). Or maybe the company has cheaper labor or is more efficient.
Regarding this Westinghouse, the article stated that you can get a firmware fix for it for free. Not the most horrible thing in the world, and I could see the same thing happening with more expensive products.
Wait, so you're saying that you're a good ass kisser?
I dunno about that. Castro seemed pretty satisfied to me. Saddam was happy building his palaces and statues until Bush took his toys away. I think it's harder on politicians in free societies because they get so much criticism and have to eat it. The dictators can just throw the malcontents in prison.
Preview is your friend.
Not true if Trusted Computing becomes a reality. You can't stick your hardware in a virtual machine.
You're wrong. Apple is now on the front page of Slashdot being shown as censoring problem reports from customers. I'm sure this will get get back to managers at Apple and that they won't be happy about the negative publicity. This all happened because they mistreated one customer. Score one for the little guy and fuck your elitist, tin soldier "I"m a shareholder" boast.
I love how all you Apple fanboys defend them no matter what. The guy has a problem with his Mac Pro and posts on an Apple *support* forum for Mac Pros. And then in an awful display of customer support, his post gets censored.
The only way to fix this shit is to shame companies for this stupid behavior. The blind loyalty by the Apple devotees is amusing, though. If Microsoft had done this you wouldn't be making your silly defenses.
This is wrong. Solaris 10 is not licensed under an open source license. The two relevant links are:
Licensing Information
Software License Agreement
It's confusing as all hell, and Sun is not very explicit on their webpages about the distinction between Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. It seems like much of the commercial Solaris code has been transferred to the OpenSolaris project, but not all: "There remains some system code that is not open sourced, and is available only as binary files.". There is no free source you can build from that will give you an official Solaris 10 build. As an example, somebody in this thread posted that Sun was charging for patches (and of course some jerk modded him down for mentioning it).
I think the answer is if you want open source, stick with OpenSolaris, unless you want paid support.
For a couple of days I saw some people who had stopped at the side of the road to view it during my commute. Sadly I didn't stop to see what they were looking at, and by the time I found out it was a day too late. At least the people in the Southern Hemisphere have advance warning.
But then again, it's just a light in the sky. I'll get over it :)
Spending $5 on a used CD when I typically only want one or two songs from an album isn't worthwhile. I'd rather pay iTunes $1 and download the song. Much more convenient and cheaper. And you know, I totally forgot about the burn-to-CD iTunes hole. I recently shifted to Linux from Windows, with my iTunes collection sitting unused. Burning it to CD and then copying to mp3 isn't a hardship.
The problem is that most people aren't going to pay for something if they can get it for free. Yes, some will, but come on, you know the vast majority will not. So how are content producers supposed to make their money? It costs millions of dollars to make a movie. The only way they can make it back if they can't charge for it is via massive product placement -- and who the hell wants that? Just look at television -- full of ads. Then people get sick of the ads and cut them out by either DVR or downloading from the net. If everybody does this, how can the producers spend the money to put out a show?
And while it doesn't cost millions to make a song, I think the availability and quality of music as a whole will suffer without people chasing the dream of "making the big time". The indy stuff you can get for free is mostly by people trying to make a name for themselves. If freely copyable indy music truly was better, then there would be no need to worry about DRM -- just don't buy it and listen to the free indy stuff. It's like that today with software. There's lots of good, free software available. If it doesn't meet your needs there's lots of good software you can buy. Isn't it nice to have the choice?
Or maybe you're just much more sensitive to music quality than the average person?
You list trivial contact information as things you are willing to share. Why is that? Why don't you mention all your purchases, your health records, every website you visit, every private email you send? Do you want cameras in every room of your house that are accessible 24/7? Do you want every word you say recorded and publically available? This is all information. Does it still want to be free?
No, information doesn't want anything. The vast majority of people want to keep their sensitive information private, and outside people occasionally want access to it. The information itself doesn't have feelings.
Tcl, hmm, why do people like this language so much? I hate the "everything is a string/macro" approach. It's very hard to look at a piece of code and figure out what's going on. Ad-hoc and confusing syntax everywhere. The object-oriented stuff is tacked on and it shows.
At first glance I thought it was kinda neat. I liked the string/function interpolation (as opposed to just variable interpolation in Perl). The singly-threaded event system is a nice default. The syntax seemed simple and clean. However, that simple appearance was deceptive if you actually sat down and tried to figure out how to parse an arbitrary line of code.
And about this whole "scripting" language thing. I have found that scripts far too often turn into applications, and that static typing is needed to keep a handle on the code. Instead of reaching for scripting languages, we should reach for static languages that have script-like features, such as type inference.
No it doesn't. Information has no feelings. Stop repeating mindless slogans. Do you want your deepest, darkest secrets exposed to the world? Do you want to live in a society where corporations and governments track everything you do, know all your health problems, etc? Does information still want to be free?
There are lots of good arguments for and against copyright, with lots of grey areas inbetween (for example, scaling back the length of copyright and reversing oppressive laws like the DMCA). Let's not reduce the discussion to "information wants to be free", just because people like downloading entertainment for nothing or breaking in to protected systems.
That's fine, but the average consumer is looking at lots of content designed for 4/3. If you want to claim they can buy a comparable HDTV set to their 27" standard for $500, you should include some caveats.
You misunderstand. I never said to spoonfeed the answers. just tell the developer what your expectations are. Who said to do all the work for the developer? If you want gold-plated production code, then ask for that. If you just want to see if he can mock up a solution, then ask for that. The point is that an interview environment is totally artificial -- there are no customers, there are no real requirements, and the interviewee has no idea what the interviewer's expectations are. In the real world the developer knows what the situation is.